This year it looks like my dear sweet wife will be letting me get out of the house for a short week to go do some hunting. The problem is that I'm not really sure where I want to go or what I want to go after. I'm getting tired of going to places to hunt for a week and all I see is the small area around a tree stand in some heavy woods. I'd like to go some to a place where I can hike and walk for miles and look for game that way. Normally every couple of years I'd go either deer hunting or black bear hunting, and as much as I want to go again, I just don't want to go sit in tree or in a blind. I basically don't want to be sitting still anymore.
To be completely honest, I don't even care if I'm hunting after "big game". I'd love to find a place where I could be see plenty of small game and have lots of opportunities to pop something for dinner with a 22lr, compared to waiting all week to take a single shot at something big with a 30-06. If there was a river or pond nearby for a little fishing that wouldn't be an entirely bad thing either. I'm going to have a pickup by this fall so I'd be completely ok if this trip meant living out of a truck and going from place to place for a week too. Nothing too extreme, but something remote where a guy can check out an area and once you've found a spot to hunt, fish, camp etc.
I've never been on a trip like this before and I'd really like to make this happen, but I don't know where to focus my efforts to find a place that could accommodate something like this. Does anyone have any suggestions?
To be completely honest, I don't even care if I'm hunting after "big game". I'd love to find a place where I could be see plenty of small game and have lots of opportunities to pop something for dinner with a 22lr, compared to waiting all week to take a single shot at something big with a 30-06. If there was a river or pond nearby for a little fishing that wouldn't be an entirely bad thing either. I'm going to have a pickup by this fall so I'd be completely ok if this trip meant living out of a truck and going from place to place for a week too. Nothing too extreme, but something remote where a guy can check out an area and once you've found a spot to hunt, fish, camp etc.
I've never been on a trip like this before and I'd really like to make this happen, but I don't know where to focus my efforts to find a place that could accommodate something like this. Does anyone have any suggestions?